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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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